FINALLY watched Looper. Such an amazing movie with such a HUGE problem when it comes to the logistics of time travel. It even breaks its own ridiculous rules at one point in the movie. Still gonna buy it and love it, albeit reluctantly.

FINALLY watched Looper. Such an amazing movie with such a HUGE problem when it comes to the logistics of time travel. It even breaks its own ridiculous rules at one point in the movie. Still gonna buy it and love it, albeit reluctantly.

I respectfully disagree. The motivations of JGL's character were just all over the place and made no sense. Not just in terms of how he feels about his employer but also the kid, the mom, the stripper. It also just had stuff in it that went nowhere. (The best friend and TK, anyone?)

It was entertaining. I will give it that, but there was logic missing in more than just the time travel.

JGL's character's motivations were pretty clear. He's an anti-hero that was initially motivated by his own desires, showing signs of good, a side of him that eventually takes over when it really matters (pretty standard). He failed his employer, a man that (as he sees it) saved him from a shittier life, is trying to kill him, and he wants to square things with him to live his life like he wants. He grows to care about the mom and kid before finding out the kid is actually the kid that's gonna violently take over the world, but his good side still keeps him from killing him as he thinks there's a better way.

Paul Dano's showing off of his TK was to introduce the TK, as well as establish that his character's a bit of a skeez (saying he's gonna use it to pick up women and stuff, something that's looked at as pathetic).

Don't know what's not to understand.

EDIT - Oh, and the stripper? A romantic symbol of the life he currently lives. He realizes she's not what he wants when he realizes he's turned into a guy that'll sacrifice his best friend over his silver.

Of course, the original Planet of the Apes is my most favorite movie ever, so I was all prepared to be annoyed by them hacking anything that might make sense or make it enjoyable to watch, especially considering how disappointed I was with the Planet of the Apes remake.

I skipped it too, but it's been playing on HBO, like, twice a day. Watched it all the way through. It's not bad. Yeah, it has all the shit you'd expect from a mainstream movie, but I was pretty entertained.

JGL's character's motivations were pretty clear. He's an anti-hero that was initially motivated by his own desires, showing signs of good, a side of him that eventually takes over when it really matters (pretty standard). He failed his employer, a man that (as he sees it) saved him from a shittier life, is trying to kill him, and he wants to square things with him to live his life like he wants. He grows to care about the mom and kid before finding out the kid is actually the kid that's gonna violently take over the world, but his good side still keeps him from killing him as he thinks there's a better way.

Paul Dano's showing off of his TK was to introduce the TK, as well as establish that his character's a bit of a skeez (saying he's gonna use it to pick up women and stuff, something that's looked at as pathetic).

Don't know what's not to understand.

EDIT - Oh, and the stripper? A romantic symbol of the life he currently lives. He realizes she's not what he wants when he realizes he's turned into a guy that'll sacrifice his best friend over his silver.

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His whole purpose of killing his future self was to get good with the mob. Then when he finds out they are going to kill him no matter what he does, he STILL decides that killing his future self is the way to go.

As for protecting the kid, what does the timeline predict? That JGL doesn't get involved and the kid grows up to be a monster. So what does he do? He saves his life from his future self and leaves him alone.

Two problems with this, 1. This might not even be the right kid. 2. If it is and he knows what he will definitely become, he just thinks "I like his mom. I'll save the little Hitler."

He keeps on trying to kill the old him, because he plans on killing the kid. And it's never truly established that he'd be killed regardless, considering that was told to him through a lower agent that just takes orders.

JGL already got involved. Chaos theory (which I know is largely ignored in this movie, but that was the logic I had a problem with in the beginning). The kid shows an ability to control himself and listen to his mommy. JGL sees that the kid would only be corrupted again if he saw his mom get killed, which is what was going to happen which is why Bruce Willis hadn't disappeared. That was the point of the ending. And c'mon, they know it's the right kid. A single person that takes over the future? One of the 3 possibles has superpowers (I think the other possibles were dead, too)? C'mon. We know who it is.

They filmed that all around my neighborhood. My girlfriend knew those guys in high school and Jeremy Richardson was always trying to ask her out but she thought he was a big drughead weirdo. I don't like where i live.

The bigger fella seems like an evil bastard but the other one (the one who got the death penalty) just seemed like a ignorant redneck. What a shitty thing all around.

I know where you live (that sounds creepy but you know what I mean) and I've wondered as I've watched this if you're familiar with these places they keep showing.

The only place i didn't recognize was the bar where they talked to that bartender. They drove up and down the street that turns off into my neighborhood and there's a Jack in the Box and a Shell that i go to all the time. I've even been past the prisons they showed many times, in Livingston and Huntsville. And the high school is right on the way to the lake so i see that all the time too. I wonder if Herzog was in line in front of me at the gas station or something and i didn't even know it.

I have HBO again which reminded me that I didn't like the end of The Adjustment Bureau at all but I really enjoyed the first half and the one thing I'm going to remember about this movie is that Damon and Blunt's characters make the best couple ever in the history of both fake and real couples.

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